A. B. Yehoshua Quotes

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

A. B. Yehoshua

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• There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Character
  • Change
  • Myself

• I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Enjoy

• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Man
  • Literature
  • Pen

• I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Think
  • Gold
  • Victory

• The title 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' is meant to be a deconstruction of a stereotype, and the whole show is about deconstructing the boxes that we're supposed to be put into. We like taking apart the tropes and the stereotypes and explore the nuances, so 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' is a label that we go deep underneath to explore.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Crazy
  • Deep
  • Explore

• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

  Edmund White
  • Political
  • Community
  • Body

• Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Service
  • Literature
  • Adventure

• I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Understand
  • Find
  • Start

• I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Feeling
  • Small
  • Me

• I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Music
  • Science

• When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • World
  • Value
  • Gold

• It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Space
  • Understand
  • Far

• I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

  

  E. B. White
  • Know
  • Literature
  • More

• Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • May
  • High
  • Like

• We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we've got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • World
  • Start
  • Explore

• Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Literature
  • Changes

• I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!

  

  Halsey
  • Time
  • Understand
  • Appreciate

• I don't understand anything about America's culture.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Culture
  • Understand

• What I think I've learned is that you're never going to get it all right, and you can't obsess about having a fact wrong or a date wrong or something like that, as long as you tried as best you could. If you've done the kind of research that you're sure is pretty good, then you just have to have confidence in it, so that nothing is perfect in life. I think that is what the criticism has helped me to understand.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew required to be drawn with a self-denial rarely paralleled in history.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • History
  • Understand
  • Breath

• There have been situations where the people you're around have one vision for you, and it's like trying on a jacket that doesn't fit.

  

  Keri Hilson The Clutch
  • People
  • Trying
  • Vision

• I was the first in my family to go to college, and I waitressed all the way through, using my earnings to pay for a bachelor's degree first and then a master's. I resented classmates who didn't have to work real jobs, the ones who had the luxury of taking unpaid internships that would eventually position them for high-paying careers.

  

  Ali Liebegott
  • Work
  • Real
  • Family

• The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

  

  George Osborne
  • Strong
  • Alone
  • Rest

• Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Literature
  • Understand
  • Gold